There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum. — John Perry Copy Share Image
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type. — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image